Podcast

• June 19, 2021Podcast

  Psychologist Ellen Kirschman on Responder Differences With Stress

  Ellen Kirschman, a psychologist specializing in helping responders and their families deal with job stress, joins us today on the Disaster Podcast. Ellen is a member of the First Responder Support Network (FRSN.org).

• June 11, 2021Podcast

  Police Response to 9-11 and Katrina with Joe Haggerty

  Today on the show we have retired Washington D.C. Metro police officer, Joseph B. Haggerty, Sr. Joe is the author of the novels: Shame: The Story of a Pimp and An Ocean in the Desert Contributor to the PSWA anthology: Felons, Flames and Ambulance Rides Award winning poet, writer and lecturer on the sexual exploitation of women and children in prostitution and pornography.

• June 4, 2021Podcast

  Night Police Authors Share Their Careers in Law Enforcement

  Retired police officers and authors Chris Berg and Paul James Smith join the Disaster Podcast Team on this week's show. They share their experiences as police officers and how they responded to incidents and interacted with other first responders. Their books, The Night Police and The Bleeding are available at NightPolice.com.

• May 28, 2021Podcast

  Tactical Combat Casualty Care in a Time of Active Shooters

  Dr. James Brasiel from Accredited EMS Fire Training comes back to the show to help discuss the recent active shooter incident in San Jose, California. He teaches Tactical Combat Casualty Care ("T Triple-C") classes to combined Police/EMS/Fire teams, the military, and other groups involved in active response to these incidents.

• May 14, 2021Podcast

  COVID Update and a Special Memorial Retrospective on Ted Setla

  http://media.blubrry.com/disaster/p/podcast-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/disaster/DisasterPodcast_20210514_Ted_Setla_Memorial_Covid_Update.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreIn the main segment of this episode, we talk about COVID CDC mask guidance updates […]

• May 10, 2021Podcast

  Life and Preparedness as a Digital Nomad with Kevin Reiter

  Frequent guest and friend of the Disaster Podcast, Kevin Writer, comes on the show to talk about his next adventure. He will be going on the road as a digital nomad. He'll be journaling his travels at the website - TheBrokenNomad.com.

• April 30, 2021Podcast

  Hurricane Season Predictions on the Disaster Podcast

  We take a look at the upcoming predictions for the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season this week on the Disaster Podcast. Our meteorologists come on the show to discuss recent severe weather events and then touch on predictions and the methods used to make these long-range forecasts.

• April 9, 2021Podcast

  Prolonged Advanced Medical Care in Disaster and Military Settings

  This week on the show we look at how new medical technologies might reach into the field including during disaster deployments. Critical care paramedics L.J. Relle and Cecil Fairchild come on the show to talk about how medical devices usually only seen in the hospital setting are moving into the street on EMS units to improve patient diagnostics and care.

• April 2, 2021Podcast

  Extreme Weather, Tornadoes, and USAR Team Response

  On this episode we discuss the recent extreme weather and tornado activity occurring across the US South and Southeast. Meteorologists Becky and Dan DePodwin join us to talk about the weather causes leading to these powerful tornadoes and what we can expect in the coming months as the extreme weather continues.

• March 26, 2021Podcast

  Medics to Flight Surgeons, 3 Docs Share About A Unique Career Path

  In this episode, we bring on three former paramedics who all went on to be come not just physicians, but ER docs and military flight surgeons. Joining the podcast were Drs. Michael E. Wolf, M.D., M.S., Scott Kunkel, DO, NRP, FAAEM, and Dr. and active duty Captain Alan T. Flanigan.